A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850 by Mary Hilson

A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850 by Mary Hilson

With contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement throughout the world from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day.

Anyone working on the cooperative movement will have this book on their bookshelvesIt very much assembles the state of the art in the history of consumer cooperation. - Stefan Berger, What is New in the History of Social Movements?, in: Moving the Social, Volume 59 (2018), pp. 115-127 [DOI: 10.13154/mts.59.2018.115-127] By illuminating the divergent histories of consumer cooperative movements in industrialized countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, A Global History makes an important contribution to scholarship. [...] Hilson and her collaborators will remain widely read for decades. - Carl J. Strikwerda, in: International Review of Social History 63:1 (2018), pp. 127-142 [DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000670] The book is not uncritical of divisions between co-ops over markets, or of the tensions between cheap goods, colonial production, and ethical matters, or of failures such as the Berkeley co-op. Like its subject, this book is unwieldy, yet worldly; its ambitions are greater than the sum of its parts, but those parts are very rewarding in their detail-and those ambitions are inestimably worthy, enduring, and global. - Lawrence Black, in: Economic History Review 71:2 (2018), pp. 692-694

Mary Hilson (PhD Exeter University, 1998) is Professor of History at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published on labor and co-operative history especially in the Nordic countries, including the co-edited Co-operatives and the Social Question: The Co-operative Movement in Northern and Eastern Europe (1880-1950) (Welsh Academic Press, 2012).
Silke Neunsinger (PhD Uppsala University, 2001) is associate professor in economic history and director of research at the Swedish labor movement archives and library. She has published extensively on the history of social movements, feminist labor history, global labor history and methodology.
Greg Patmore (PhD University of Sydney, 1985) is Professor of Business and Labor History at the University of Sydney Business School. He specialises in business, labor and co-operative history. His most recent publication is Worker Voice. Employee Representation in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US 1914-1939 (Liverpool University Press, 2016).

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ISBN 13	9789004336544
ISBN 10	9004336540
Title	A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850
Author	Mary Hilson
Series	Studies In Global Social History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Brill
Year published	2017-07-27
Number of pages	878
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